NYC mayor’s green plan fights ...

May 3, 2015 by

NYC mayor’s green plan fights poverty and pollution at the same time

[Translate] Kevin Case Not Your Father’s Environmental Plan By Matt Ryan GRIST When New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) unveiled...

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L.A.’s New City Plan Will Make...

Apr 11, 2015 by

L.A.’s New City Plan Will Make You Want To Move There

[Translate] by Ari Phillips CLIMATE PROGRESS Palm trees at the Magic Hour in Los Angeles, C.A. CREDIT: flickr/ Chris Goldberg Los...

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In The Midst Of Toxic Oil Spil...

Apr 11, 2015 by

In The Midst Of Toxic Oil Spill, Vancouver Announces It Will Go 100 Percent Renewable

[Translate] by Natasha Geiling CLIMATE PROGRESS Vancouver, B.C., a land of confused environmental news. CREDIT: Shutterstock There’s...

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Urban Software

Apr 6, 2015 by

Urban Software

[Translate] Author and theoretician Keller Easterling discusses how architects and urbanists might hack the operating system of our...

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Landscape Architecture in the ...

Mar 31, 2015 by

Landscape Architecture in the News Highlights (March 16 – 31)

[Translate] by J.R. Taylor  THE DIRT New City Design Can Help Reclaim a Lost Way of Life – China Daily, try 3/18/15 “When landscape...

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10 cities drearier than Seattl...

Mar 25, 2015 by

10 cities drearier than Seattle

[Translate] Chris Blakeley By Katie Herzog   GRIST CityLab recently reported that Grist’s hometown Seattle was named America’s...

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Are millennials really just fu...

Mar 25, 2015 by

Are millennials really just future suburbanites?

[Translate] By Ben Adler GRIST Over at FiveThirtyEight, Ben Casselman argues that the supposed millennial affection for cities is a...

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We could put utility-scale sol...

Mar 17, 2015 by

We could put utility-scale solar plants in our cities

[Translate] J R By Bobby Magill GRIST Cross-posted from Climate Central There is a scene in Gattaca when Ethan Hawke and Uma...

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Drones Will Elevate Urban Desi...

Mar 16, 2015 by

Drones Will Elevate Urban Design

[Translate]  by The Dirt Contributor “The conscious remolding of the large-scale physical environmental imageability is a new one. We...

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America is literally on fire: ...

Mar 10, 2015 by

America is literally on fire: How out-of-control oil spills are destroying our population centers

[Translate] Disasters are raging with such force and regularity that firefighters have to give up. Welcome to the new reality David...

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5 Ways We Design Our Cities to...

Mar 9, 2015 by

[Translate] Hostile architecture prevents society’s unwanted from inhabiting public spaces. By Allegra Kirkland / AlterNet It goes by...

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These bizarre, beautiful citie...

Mar 5, 2015 by

These bizarre, beautiful cities of the future are also super green

[Translate] By Suzanne Jacobs GRIST I consider myself somewhat of an expert on future cities. When I relocated to Seattle just over a...

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Landscape Architecture in the ...

Mar 2, 2015 by

Landscape Architecture in the News Highlights (February 16 – 28)

[Translate] THE DIRT   by J.R. Taylor Rethinking the Waterfront – The Architect’s Newspaper, 2/17/15 “Earlier this month Brooklyn...

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Is Starbucks Responsible For D...

Feb 17, 2015 by

Is Starbucks Responsible For Driving Up Real Estate Prices in Gentrified Cities?

[Translate] Economy It’s a caffeinated spin on the old chicken-and-egg question: which came first? By Jana Kasperkevic / The...

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FIVE CITIES WHERE PLANNING WEN...

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[Translate] Cities THE GUARDIAN Britain’s planning departments have lost nearly half of their budgets over the past four years,...

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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN THE ...

Feb 2, 2015 by

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN THE NEWS (JANUARY 16 – 31)

[Translate] THE DIRT  by J.R. Taylor Yoko Ono and Project 120 Collaborate to Reimagine Chicago’s Jackson Park – Arch Daily, cialis...

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WHAT EXCITES YOU ABOUT CITIES ...

Jan 23, 2015 by

WHAT EXCITES YOU ABOUT CITIES AND TRANSPORTATION?

[Translate] THE DIRT by Jared Green “The science is clear. Climate change is already costly and shaping development, site ” said...

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COMPLETE STREETS VS. TRUCKS

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COMPLETE STREETS VS. TRUCKS

[Translate] THE DIRT by Jared Green As more communities invest in green, treatment complete streets to create environments that are...

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3 U.S. CITIES THAT INSPIRE ENV...

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[Translate] As the field of energy-efficient technology grows exponentially year after year, there is no shortage of inspiration of...

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Landscape Architecture in the ...

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Landscape Architecture in the News (January 1-15)

[Translate] THE DIRT   BY J.R. Taylor Nomad Studio to Create Landscape Architecture Installation in CAM’s Courtyard – The...

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The Slow Death of the Walkable...

Jan 8, 2015 by

The Slow Death of the Walkable City

[Translate] David Friedlander   LIFE EDITED Architecture As a bit of an urban planning enthusiast, pills I’ve often wondered how...

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U.S. Must Face Up to the Dark ...

Jan 2, 2015 by

U.S. Must Face Up to the Dark Side of Climate Change

[Translate]   Posted on Jan 1, rx  2015 By Tim Radford, Climate News Network     Philadelphia is high on the list of US cities...

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How Close do You Live to Ameri...

Jan 2, 2015 by

How Close do You Live to America’s Dirtiest Power Plants?

[Translate] by John Light  MOYERS The massive Plant Scherer near Juliette, Ga. puts 21.3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into...

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